ongoing
As a way to honor the exceptional histories, personalities and temporal power of stone, I create delicate supports to bring them to our attention, taking what might be underfoot to eye level. These sculptures, made using traditional joinery techniques and scavenged rocks, are structural experiments but also poke fun at human attempts to approach permanence. By giving these rocks their due, the sculptures invite us to consider their strength, complex faces, durability, and long lives. They exist for closer to eternity than we do. Supporting them with laborious, intricate wooden frames highlights this even further by showing the quick, effective intensity of human activity.
After these structures rot, burn, or break, and the galleries and museums that house them crumble and fall, these stones will remain. How might they look? How small will they become, on their long journey towards becoming sand? Will they re-melt or be compressed into large masses once again? We will be long gone by then.
